Compliance, International Investigations Associate
- Your strong sense of ethics aligns with the mission to protect Coinbase and customers from financial crime.
- You can write thoughtful, detailed narratives for SAR/STR submissions, ensuring regulatory defensibility.
- You enjoy uncovering deeper meanings in data, which supports proactive investigations and intelligence development.
- Your flexibility lets you adapt to different jurisdictions and evolving compliance requirements.
- The intense, high-expectation culture and quarterly 'surges' may overwhelm your need for harmony and personal space, leading to burnout.
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As a Senior Investigator in Coinbase’s Financial Intelligence Unit within Compliance (2LoD), you’ll help drive Coinbase’s financial crime investigations capability across multiple jurisdictions. This team leads complex reactive and proactive investigations, develops intelligence on emerging typologies and risk patterns, and translates investigative insights into high-quality SAR/STR decisions, escalations and programme improvements. You’ll work on high-impact matters across Coinbase’s global platform, partnering closely with MLROs, local compliance teams, operations teams and cross functional stakeholders to protect Coinbase and its customers from financial crime.
What you’ll do:
- Own end-to-end investigations into complex AML/CFT matters, from alert review or referral, through case development, disposition and SAR/STR submission to relevant FIUs.
- Conduct delegated MLRO reviews of Suspicious Transaction Reports and Suspicious Activity Reports prior to filing, ensuring accuracy, quality and regulatory defensibility.
- Lead proactive investigations, using transaction data, on-chain activity, trading behaviour and cross functional intelligence and OSINT to identify emerging typologies, threat patterns and high-risk activity.
- Develop actionable intelligence from casework and analytics to inform escalations, regulatory reporting, control enhancements and improvements to detection and investigation workflows.
- Partner internally with Country MLROs, local compliance teams, operations teams and other stakeholders on high-risk matters, information sharing and investigation strategy.
- Partner with law enforcement agencies and external stakeholders on suspicious activity reporting, information requests, and intelligence sharing.
- Support investigation quality through case review, structured feedback and contributions to policies, procedures, training and programme maturity.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 4+ years conducting and reviewing complex crypto financial crime investigations including experience across a range of products such as retail and institutional transfers, spot trading and derivatives.
- Experience preparing, reviewing and filing SARs/STRs with strong understanding of multi-jurisdiction AML/CTF regulatory obligations and reporting expectations.
- Demonstrated ability to perform data-driven investigations using SQL, blockchain analytics tools and other research techniques to extract investigative insights, identify suspicious behaviour and develop defensible conclusions.
- Strong investigative judgement and the ability to produce clear, structured long-form reports tailored to technical, compliance, leadership, and cross-functional audiences.
- Experience identifying financial crime typologies, contributing to proactive investigations and turning investigative findings into programme or control improvements.
- Utilises generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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Best personality fits for this role
Your strategic mindset helps you connect dots in complex multi-jurisdiction investigations and anticipate emerging crime typologies.
Read the INTJ career guide →Your leadership drive and decisiveness are perfect for owning high-impact investigations and driving programme improvements.
Read the ENTJ career guide →Your analytical nature thrives on dissecting complex AML/CFT patterns and using data tools like SQL and blockchain analytics.
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